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Exodus 18:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. "

Exodus 18:12

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10 Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

13 On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?”

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Related Verses

Leviticus 10:12

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"Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;"

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Exodus 3:1

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"Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb."

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Numbers 27:22

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"Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation."

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Leviticus 10:19

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"Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the LORD’s sight?”"

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1 Chronicles 6:49

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"But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded."

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Exodus 4:29

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"Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel."

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Exodus 18:1

"Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt."

Exodus 18:2

"Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,"

Exodus 18:3

"and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”."

Exodus 18:4

"The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”"

Exodus 18:5

"Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses’ sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God."

Exodus 18:6

"He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.”"

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